[B’ Spokes: This is a must read to get a feel for the overall goal we would like to accomplish for Baltimore. Here are just some highlights:]
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Desolate Jones Falls Bikeway blows opportunity to create a livable Mount Vernon neighborhood
BY GERALD NEILY
Trying to make the city safer for cyclists sounds like a laudable goal, but the city has once again shown that it is oblivious to its most important priority – neighborhoods.
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Bicyclists have been among the greatest victims. Bikes should be an ideal transportation mode for the historic high density neighborhood, except that the streets are overwhelmed by cars.
The solution is straightforward: Divert as much traffic as possible into the underutilized Jones Falls corridor just to the east, to free up the local residential streets for humans, bikes, and above all, peace and quiet. But the city has never seen fit to do any of that.
The city’s latest solution is to move the bikes out of the community, not the cars.
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The city should concentrate as much heavy traffic as possible into corridors like the Jones Falls – on the expressway as well as next to it. Then the city should focus on creating calm, normal, livable environments in its neighborhoods and "people places" like around the Inner Harbor. This is best for traffic, best for bikes and best for people. If this is not done, all will become increasingly dysfunctional.
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https://baltimoreinnerspace.blogspot.com/2011/12/mount-vernon-vs-jones-falls-bikeway.htmloldId.20111215184017545